diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index e9a1153fdc5db..ad120d8ed7602 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
 
 ========================================================================
 For Scala Interpreter classes (all .scala files in repl/src/main/scala
-except for Main.Scala, SparkHelper.scala and ExecutorClassLoader.scala):
+except for Main.Scala, SparkHelper.scala and ExecutorClassLoader.scala),
+and for SerializableMapWrapper in JavaUtils.scala:
 ========================================================================
 
 Copyright (c) 2002-2013 EPFL
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaUtils.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaUtils.scala
index b52d0a5028e84..86e94931300f8 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaUtils.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaUtils.scala
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ package org.apache.spark.api.java
 
 import com.google.common.base.Optional
 
-import scala.collection.convert.Wrappers.MapWrapper
+import java.{util => ju}
+import scala.collection.mutable
 
 private[spark] object JavaUtils {
   def optionToOptional[T](option: Option[T]): Optional[T] =
@@ -32,7 +33,64 @@ private[spark] object JavaUtils {
   def mapAsSerializableJavaMap[A, B](underlying: collection.Map[A, B]) =
     new SerializableMapWrapper(underlying)
 
+  // Implementation is copied from scala.collection.convert.Wrappers.MapWrapper,
+  // but implements java.io.Serializable. It can't just be subclassed to make it
+  // Serializable since the MapWrapper class has no no-arg constructor. This class
+  // doesn't need a no-arg constructor though.
   class SerializableMapWrapper[A, B](underlying: collection.Map[A, B])
-    extends MapWrapper(underlying) with java.io.Serializable
+    extends ju.AbstractMap[A, B] with java.io.Serializable { self =>
 
+    override def size = underlying.size
+
+    override def get(key: AnyRef): B = try {
+      underlying get key.asInstanceOf[A] match {
+        case None => null.asInstanceOf[B]
+        case Some(v) => v
+      }
+    } catch {
+      case ex: ClassCastException => null.asInstanceOf[B]
+    }
+
+    override def entrySet: ju.Set[ju.Map.Entry[A, B]] = new ju.AbstractSet[ju.Map.Entry[A, B]] {
+      def size = self.size
+
+      def iterator = new ju.Iterator[ju.Map.Entry[A, B]] {
+        val ui = underlying.iterator
+        var prev : Option[A] = None
+
+        def hasNext = ui.hasNext
+
+        def next() = {
+          val (k, v) = ui.next
+          prev = Some(k)
+          new ju.Map.Entry[A, B] {
+            import scala.util.hashing.byteswap32
+            def getKey = k
+            def getValue = v
+            def setValue(v1 : B) = self.put(k, v1)
+            override def hashCode = byteswap32(k.hashCode) + (byteswap32(v.hashCode) << 16)
+            override def equals(other: Any) = other match {
+              case e: ju.Map.Entry[_, _] => k == e.getKey && v == e.getValue
+              case _ => false
+            }
+          }
+        }
+
+        def remove() {
+          prev match {
+            case Some(k) =>
+              underlying match {
+                case mm: mutable.Map[a, _] =>
+                  mm remove k
+                  prev = None
+                case _ =>
+                  throw new UnsupportedOperationException("remove")
+              }
+            case _ =>
+              throw new IllegalStateException("next must be called at least once before remove")
+          }
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/JavaAPISuite.java b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/JavaAPISuite.java
index 64b6377de8d32..9b651ee95dfaa 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/JavaAPISuite.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/JavaAPISuite.java
@@ -1256,6 +1256,19 @@ public Tuple2<Integer, int[]> call(Integer x) {
     pairRDD.collectAsMap();  // Used to crash with ClassCastException
   }
 
+  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+  @Test
+  public void collectAsMapAndSerialize() throws Exception {
+    JavaPairRDD<String,Integer> rdd =
+        sc.parallelizePairs(Arrays.asList(new Tuple2<String,Integer>("foo", 1)));
+    Map<String,Integer> map = rdd.collectAsMap();
+    ByteArrayOutputStream bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+    new ObjectOutputStream(bytes).writeObject(map);
+    Map<String,Integer> deserializedMap = (Map<String,Integer>)
+        new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes.toByteArray())).readObject();
+    Assert.assertEquals(1, deserializedMap.get("foo").intValue());
+  }
+
   @Test
   @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
   public void sampleByKey() {